Another article on the same card posted here: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=578
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 09:44 -0600, Craig Tierney wrote: > Mark Hahn wrote: > >> It is a bit weird if you claim to be NDA bound, whereas the news has > >> it in > >> big capitals what the new IBM CELL can deliver. > > > > I thought he was referring to double-precision on Nvidia gpus, > > which have indeed not been shipped publicly (afaik). > > An article posted today about the GTX280, which is to be release tomorrow, > states that the GTX280 has "support for the IEEE-754R double-precision > floating-point standard." > > http://www.maximumpc.com/sites/maximumpc.com/themes/maximumpc/wow.php?back=article/unveiled_nvidias_next_gen_gpu > > Craig > > > > > >> So a very reasonable question to ask is what the latency is from the > >> stream processors to the device RAM. > > > > sure, they're GPUs, not general-purpose coprocessors. but both AMD and > > Intel are making noises about changing this. AMD seems to be moving GPU > > units on-chip, where they would presumably share L3, cache coherency, > > etc. Intel's Larrabee approach seems to be to add wider vector units to > > normal x86 cores (and more of them). I personally think the latter is > > much more promising from an HPC perspective. but then again, both AMD > > and Nvidia have major cred on the line - they have to deliver competitive > > levels of the traditional GPU programming model. > > _______________________________________________ > > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > > > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
